303: The Return of Two Old Friends

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0:00:08From Relay FM, this is Upgrade episode 303. Today's show is brought to you by the fine folk over at Linode, DoorDash, ExpressVPN and fully.

0:00:19My name is Myke Hurley and I'm joined by Jason Snell. Hi Jason Snell.

0:00:22Hello Myke Hurley, I'm joining you live from California where an event just took place, but I'm just in my house.

0:00:27You're just at home, because it's WWDC time. We are recording this episode basically immediately after the WWDC 2020 presentation ended.

0:00:38So we have basically as much information as you can have from when the keynote ended.

0:00:44There's more information pouring out as we record today, but this is our immediate reactions and we can talk more in future episodes about that.

0:00:52If you're new around here, before every keynote we do a draft where me and Jason instead of doing typical predictions, we take a look at what our predictions will be and then we draft them and pick our favorites and compete to win.

0:01:06And we will now spend just a few moments talking about how we scored this draft.

0:01:12Now Jason, I will say I peg you as the winner on this one, which is of just great upset to me.

0:01:19I put you at 5 points to my 4 points. Would you like me to go through how I scored this?

0:01:26Sure, I have it 5 to 3, so it will be interesting to see what you gave yourself credit for that I didn't give you credit for.

0:01:32I think I know what it is, but we'll get to that. I'll put a link in the show notes to the draft scorecard in case you also want to see exactly what all of our picks were.

0:01:42But Jason, I have you as correctly picking that the Arm transition would be announced, which it was, that Mac Catalyst would get some improvements, which it did.

0:01:52We see the inside of the Apple Park ring, we saw it many times, that there would be new Memoji options and improvements to Siri.

0:02:00Yes.

0:02:01Was that what you had, all of those?

0:02:04Those were my 5. I really thought I was going to get no gameplay demos, and then an Apple person spent about a minute showing off a Tomb Raider game just to show that code translation in Rosetta running on Apple Silicon would be fine.

0:02:23And that, you know, I don't want to argue it. There was gameplay. He was literally playing a game, so go figure. I lost that one out.

0:02:33Even though I already knew I'd lost by that point, I was still happy when it happened.

0:02:37True, you were.

0:02:39So I got changes to the home screen layout on iPad OS.

0:02:43You can add widgets.

0:02:47You could already add widgets. Can you actually add them?

0:02:52Can you not add them to the home screen?

0:02:54The screen that I saw just had the widgets in the widget area to the left of page 1 like it currently does, and I think the new widgets will be there, but is that a layout change?

0:03:04I didn't mark this down until a point where I believe that Craig said that you will be able to get these features on iOS.

0:03:21But maybe you can't move them around. I don't know, actually.

0:03:25And even looking at the website, I can't tell, so I think you might be right there.

0:03:31That's my question. Did they show those widgets doing stuff?

0:03:36Now, maybe the home screen layout, I mean, I assume, actually, the question is did they show it?

0:03:41But I assume that that last page, the whatever they're calling it, the library, app library, it's got to be on the iPad, too, right?

0:03:49I kept looking for images of either of those things on their iPad demo, and I didn't see them.

0:03:56Steven says yes, so you get that one.

0:03:59All right. Anyway, it still doesn't change the overall score anyway, so maybe I can just have the point so it's not too much of a gap.

0:04:08Changing default apps on iPadOS and iOS. I didn't think I was going to get this one, but it showed up on one of the Word Bubble slides,

0:04:16which actually, now that I know this, now that we know this is the case, it makes the most sense.

0:04:21This is not something that Apple really want to do that you'll be able to change. I think it's email and web browsing.

0:04:29But that is something that you will be able to do. New Apple watch faces and enhancements to messages on iOS.

0:04:38They were my four points that I gave myself.

0:04:41Yep, I agree. I agree. So one that's slightly in dispute because there's some concern about that iPadOS one, but the fact is it doesn't matter.

0:04:51Also, I really love that in the members Discord everybody's posting facts from Apple web pages, which is beside the point because it's not about what's on the web pages.

0:04:59It's great if you have the information, but it's not about, as we said many times, it's not about what is true, it's about what we saw in the presentation.

0:05:06There is some question, I believe, that it was spoken about in the presentation, but nevertheless it didn't change the overall win.

0:05:14This is your second WWDC win in a row, Jason Snow. Congratulations to you. I'm obviously heartbroken.

0:05:20Thank you. You won the tiebreaker. I thought that was going to be auspicious when you won the tiebreaker immediately, which was, will Tim Cook be on a stage?

0:05:26And in fact, he was the only person who was on a stage, but he was on a stage in the Steve Jobs Theater.

0:05:32So I thought it was going to go your way there, but you know, a score of five to four, we had one, I believe, that was like 10 to nine or 10 to 10 with a tiebreaker, something like that, where we've gotten more.

0:05:45I feel like this is a combination of some things that took us by surprise, but also us being a little bit more bold and risky with some of our choices.

0:05:52But either way, thank you for acknowledging that I am the winner.

0:05:57Because of something that we both had some hardware-related picks, and there was no hardware today.

0:06:04No hardware.

0:06:06And it was Mac-related for both of us. You predicted new iMac, and I predicted new Apple Display, and neither of those things happened.

0:06:14We're going to obviously talk about the ARM or Apple Silicon transition, but at the very end of the presentation, Tim referenced the fact that there were more Intel Macs coming.

0:06:25We can assume that that iMac is coming. I would not be surprised to see it announced in the next couple of weeks, personally.

0:06:33Whether that will come along with an Apple Display, I don't know, but it seems like that iMac is imminent, but not now.

0:06:45Yeah, I would be not at all surprised if there was new Mac hardware soon, but not today. Not during the countdown.

0:06:54One of my picks that I was surprised, I think I was the most surprised that we didn't hear anything about, was a focus on mental health features for the Apple Watch.

0:07:03I still think that might be coming to watchOS 7, but with new Apple Watch hardware that maybe there's a sensor that they add, which can provide a little bit more functionality there.

0:07:14I would be surprised.

0:07:16There were several moments where, especially during the Watch presentation, where the Watch presentation was very much like, "Here are just a few of the features we're adding."

0:07:24They just said it, that this is a tiny sliver of what's actually being in the new version of watchOS. So I thought that was interesting.

0:07:33Yeah, there are these pages on Apple's website where you can look at all of the new features.

0:07:38I had a cursory look before we started recording today just to see that they were there, and there are lots and lots and lots of things, which is great.

0:07:45I know as we all are going to enjoy immensely over the next few days diving through those, especially with having additional time than we usually would during the WWDC week.

0:07:56Jason, is there any of your picks that you got wrong that you were really surprised about?

0:08:01Really surprised? I don't know about that.

0:08:05I'm kicking myself more for the ones that I had on our list than I didn't pick. I had a Johnny Srugi appearance, right? The chip guy at Apple.

0:08:19He made his appearance, and I could have picked that, and I thought about it, and then I didn't do it.

0:08:25The ARM Transition Hardware Not Offered, that was my last pick, and I thought that was a wacky pick that probably wouldn't go, but it would look great if it did, and it did not go. It did not happen.

0:08:35There was a Mac Mini, as you prophesied a Mac Mini that is the developer transition kit.

0:08:42I'm just going to say on this one, I am pretty pleased about that, because I would just say I listen to a lot of tech podcasts. I've not heard anybody mention Mac Mini before I mentioned it.

0:08:52So I'm just going to go ahead and say I called that one. I mentioned it here a few weeks ago. I'm going to take that, that I called the Mac Mini as being the transition hardware.

0:09:02I'm pretty pleased about that one, actually. It makes the most sense, and we'll talk about maybe a little bit more why in a little bit.

0:09:09So that was the draft. You can knock that one up as a win for you.

0:09:13Irene, I reckon we probably only have one more keynote this year, so the best I can do is a tie. Hopefully I can at least get a tie. That would be nice so I don't lose another year.

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0:12:40I want to jump straight in to talking about macOS Big Sur.

0:12:46Now, I had the feeling that we would probably talk about macOS first today because it would be the biggest set of news, but I thought that that would purely be because of the chip transition.

0:12:59I was not expecting, I think along with most people, that macOS would see the level of work that it has had done to it, right?

0:13:12I think that's the big surprise is that this isn't just a chip transition story with the Mac.

0:13:20It is also kind of what, well, what they said was the biggest visual change since OS X, which brought the Aqua interface and all of that.

0:13:28And I think that's true. Looking at it, again, only based on sort of what we've seen immediately, it sure feels like, am I wrong, Myke?

0:13:36It feels like this is the iPad-ification of macOS a bit?

0:13:40Yeah, and that may be, okay, so to say that has some baggage to it, and I think I want to talk about that baggage immediately because there are people that would say that or would have said that in the past, and it means a bad thing, that it's a bad thing.

0:13:56This isn't what you want the Mac to be. But I think what you have to consider here is the fact that iPad has evolved and is continuing to evolve, and now macOS is evolving with it, and they're going to move together.

0:14:09Because we'll talk about iPadOS 14 later on, but some of the visual design stuff that they've shown in macOS, they've clearly brought to iPadOS.

0:14:17I actually don't think it's the other way around. Like, some of the new toolbars, some of the new sidebars.

0:14:23I did notice that the toolbars get the shading around them, like the cursor support stuff on iPadOS, so obviously there is a symbiosis there.

0:14:33I would say it goes both ways because one of the big statements about iPadOS was, look at all these sidebars in all of these apps. Like, Photos has a sidebar now on the iPad.

0:14:45Photos has had a sidebar on the Mac for a very long time, so what it's doing is it's kind of pushing that look the other way as well, and that makes them even more synced up.

0:14:55But yeah, the fact that all the apps have round-recs behind them, which is an iOS standard, a lot of increased transparency and translucency in the interface,

0:15:11which again I'm sure you can turn off in the accessibility settings, but it was subtle before, and it's even greater now.

0:15:17The new sort of simplified toolbar at the top of the windows, like, there's just a lot of changes that have happened here that are going to be surprising, I think, for Mac users,

0:15:29because the Mac's visual interface has only kind of gradually evolved. It's not like they made Aqua and then they stopped, right?

0:15:37It has kept evolving and it doesn't look anything like Aqua now, and you can go through a screenshot gallery of past Mac OS versions and you can see how it evolves from version to version,

0:15:48but this seems to be the biggest individual leap that they've taken with Mac OS design since, you know, since 20 years ago when OS X first happened.

0:15:58By the way, as several people pointed out, when Craig got info on his Apple Silicon Mac, which we still have to talk about, somebody pointed out, it's also, a Mac OS Big Sur is also version 11.

0:16:12So no Spinal Tap references, but we finally have made it out of OS X, because it's not called OS X anymore.

0:16:19They finally, they waited a little while, but they finally seem to have felt free to increment it to version 11. So here we are.

0:16:27Yeah, and I think this is the right, I mean, honestly, we could have made the argument and would have made the argument that moving to ARM chips, Apple's own chips, would be warranted enough for a version 11,

0:16:40but they've made some, so many changes to the UI design that it is looking different now.

0:16:47I was intrigued to see Alan Dye presenting the design portion. I believe this is our first in-depth video from him.

0:16:57Obviously, Alan Dye taking over some of the role that Johnny Ive served before.

0:17:03Did you know that the Apple boot sound, the startup sound, was part of the presentation?

0:17:10I don't know if they're bringing that back, but it seemed like it.

0:17:13I did notice that. That was interesting. I mean, you could do that on existing Macs through like a terminal command, but I wonder if that Mac OS 11 Big Sur is going to turn that on by default.

0:17:25It's an interesting idea.

0:17:27It would be, and it's, you know, as well as making changes to a lot of the sounds. They've remade a lot of the sounds or adapted some of the sounds.

0:17:36I think, again, unified some from iOS, you know, and I feel like there's going to be a lot of discussion about the idea of Mac design, what makes a Mac app.

0:17:48This stuff has been going around for the last couple of years because of Catalyst anyway, and I think that, you know, me and you have said on this show many times that there isn't.

0:17:57That thing actually doesn't exist anymore, the idea of what a Mac app design is.

0:18:02So much has changed that the old ways of Mac design have evolved, and I think this is a massive, massive point in saying that Apple are changing what it is to be Mac design.

0:18:16So we haven't talked about it a lot. I mean, first off, a lot of people are going to argue. They're going to look at this, and they're going to say what I said, which is, oh, this is the iPadification of the Mac.

0:18:23They're turning the Mac into an iPad. It's outrageous.

0:18:26I could make a very different argument, which is Apple's Mac design has drifted in a similar way to its attention to the platform in general, seemed to drift for a few years there, where they seem to not be paying that close attention.

0:18:43There hasn't been a heavy design attention on the Mac in a while, really, and I would argue that what defines a Mac app is in large part based on examples from the operating system vendor.

0:18:59And on the Mac, it's kind of been all over the place, and it's kind of been drifting.

0:19:03And what we see with Big Sur is Apple saying, we've refreshed our apps. They all look much more alike than they used to. The OS itself is different, and it looks like this.

0:19:15And, you know, you can like it, and you can not like it, but it is Apple saying, here's what the Mac looks like.

0:19:22And yes, it does look more like the iPad. There's no doubt about it that there is a lot of design influence here because they're essentially building some different app platforms that they're building.

0:19:32They're building different app platforms that are all interconnected with one another, and now they're going to be running on the same chips, too, on top of that.

0:19:38And so this is Apple saying, like, this is what a, in the 2020s, what a Mac app should look like is what these apps look like.

0:19:48And while that is change, and there are going to be people who are grumpy, I will argue that it is also a positive thing that the platform owner is making an effort to define what the platform is,

0:20:00because I haven't felt a lot of that on the Mac for the last few years. It's been a little bit here and a little bit there, but it's been a lot of kind of drifting since we sort of de-aquified 10 years ago and made the interface a little more gray,

0:20:13and they added some translucence, and then they removed some translucence, and they did their dark mode and all that.

0:20:18But, like, it's been, I would say, kind of without a lot of leadership from the platform owner.

0:20:24And sometimes an abdicated platform owner can be good, because it means that the developers can do whatever the heck they want, and it doesn't matter, right?

0:20:33But it feels like those days are over. Developers can still do what they want, it's just that if they do what they want, and their apps look nothing like all the Apple apps, and nothing like the operating system, the users will notice, right?

0:20:44That app will stand out now, and not necessarily in a good way.

0:20:48I liked the look of the control center stuff and the new, what are they called? I can never remember the name.

0:20:55The apps, the little shortcuts that live on the top right, the menu bar. Menu bar apps? That's the phrase, right?

0:21:00Sure. Yeah, menu items, menu bar apps, sure.

0:21:03Menu items, yeah. They've changed some of the design there, which I like the look of.

0:21:07And notification center and widgets coming back, it looked very dashboard-y when it was on the Mac, which was fun.

0:21:12But that sort of stuff, from a design perspective, is really good to see as well.

0:21:17I think that this really is showing that we have a new...

0:21:23This commitment to the Mac idea that Apple have been talking about for a while, I think seeing big changes in macOS to the point where there's a lot more opinions again, is actually a good thing.

0:21:36Where it will definitely upset some people, it will make other people happy, like me, I think it looks fantastic. I actually consider that I will upgrade to Big Sur because I want that design.

0:21:47I think it looked really great. Plus there are a lot of interesting features in there, we're going to get to more of them in a minute.

0:21:52But I find myself being a little bit more excited about the Mac again, just because Apple seems to really be weighing in and pushing stuff.

0:22:01And I think that that's very exciting. It's always exciting when they do that.

0:22:04And talking about the design stuff, you can see how Catalyst has been a bit of a bridge as well, just from a visual design perspective.

0:22:14Catalyst apps look closer to macOS 11 than they did to macOS 10 in places.

0:22:19And we saw the announcement of lots and lots of updates for Mac Catalyst here.

0:22:25Way more than we got in its first year from an idea of showing these are all the things.

0:22:32I noted a couple of things that seemed intriguing, like new menu and keyboard APIs, and new controls like revised date pickers and stuff.

0:22:39And Apple have made the new versions of Map and Messages in capitalist, which messages seemed like a good one.

0:22:46That's probably what they were going to do. We're going to talk about some of the changes to messages when we talk about iOS 14.

0:22:52But that made a lot of sense to help bring that up to the current standard without needing for Apple to redo everything again.

0:23:00And putting an app like Messages behind Catalyst is only going to help Catalyst in the long run, because Messages is arguably one of the most used apps on Apple's platforms.

0:23:10Yeah, I was surprised. Even though I mentioned improvements to Catalyst, I really was nervous about that one.

0:23:17That was one that I thought I maybe wouldn't get, just because last year Apple didn't talk about it a lot.

0:23:24Now, part of that was the theory was that they talked about it a lot the previous year and said it would happen.

0:23:29And so it did. And then they didn't talk about it much and they talked about SwiftUI.

0:23:32Whereas this time, what we got was a little bit of SwiftUI mentioned here and there, but a whole bullet point, basically, about Mac Catalyst.

0:23:41And then they got to bring it back and say, "Oh, by the way, these apps that we just showed you, Maps and Messages, these are Mac Catalyst apps as well."

0:23:49But it's all part of this unification story, and Mac Catalyst is there with the new design language that they started to push out last year that is now much clearer this year about what they're viewing Mac apps as.

0:24:03And I would go back to something that I think we've talked about a couple of times since that fateful day where they got a bunch of people in a room together and said,

0:24:14"We're going to do a Mac Pro and we're recommitting to our Pro users and the Mac," and all of that, is there's definitely a "be careful what you wish for" aspect, right?

0:24:25Because if you like the Mac exactly the way it is and don't want it to ever change, you kind of want Apple to keep its eye elsewhere and just not worry about it.

0:24:36And in that moment when they had that meeting and all that, that was Apple saying, "Yeah, our eye was off the ball a little bit, and now we're going to focus on the Mac."

0:24:42But this is what you get, is it's now part of the Apple machine driving into the future, and that means it's connected to the iPhone and the iPad, and it's going to pick up design language from those other devices, and they're going to share things back and forth.

0:24:57And this is the result. And I'm excited about it too, although definitely a little trepidation there too, as somebody who's used the Mac for a very long time.

0:25:06But the alternative is it's a legacy platform, it'll never change because the only people using it are people who are sort of dead-enders, they've been there forever, they're never leaving, and no one else is going to use it, and so we're just going to park it and let it stay there.

0:25:20And Apple has decided that they're not going to do that with the Mac, and that they're going to make it part of their overall product line, and it's all going to interconnect.

0:25:28And so, you know, starting later this year, we're going to have Apple systems running on Apple-designed chips that are going to be running macOS Big Sur, and they're going to have this new look and feel, and it's very much going to be kind of like, this is the beginning of the next decade-plus of what the Mac is like.

0:25:47I was really excited about some of the stuff that's been shown on Safari. I also dug around a little bit before the beginning of the show, and it seems like a lot of these Safari features are at least coming to iPadOS as well.

0:26:01The privacy stuff was really interesting, so there's a new privacy report button that will show what websites are trying to get from you, basically, like what their tracking info is. This is something you see in a lot of content blockers, and now Apple's building that in, which is really great, because now there'll be like a native name-and-shame type thing built into the system, which may ensure that a lot of websites maybe stop trying to use so many trackers, when people can constantly see just how many people are using it.

0:26:30They can see just how many things are going on and how much data is being mined from every person that's on a website.

0:26:36Yeah, it's more in line with their whole strategy and their whole brand of pointing out when there's tracking happening and trying to block some of it and all of that.

0:26:47The Safari extensions thing also is really interesting, where extensions are very useful, but they can also be pretty serious in terms of privacy issues, and so Apple implementing a new form of browser extensions, but having built into it that you can set them to be on-per-site or off-per-site and even allow it for the day or something, or just this once.

0:27:11That's interesting, right, because that's taking the extensions idea and saying, "Okay, they're useful, but extensions reading every page that you go to is not cool, so how can we build around that?"

0:27:22So again, it fits in with their story pretty directly, and you can see that every product, every feature that comes up at Apple, clearly it passes through a filter of how can we view this in terms of our take on privacy and security.

0:27:37I'll take a quick diversion at this point to just mention about the security stuff, because I don't think we're going to have the time to dig into all of it today.

0:27:44What did you make of the idea that developers will now need to self-report what their privacy stuff is, and this is going to be shown on App Store pages? Did you think that was an interesting thing to talk about?

0:27:57I'm not entirely clear on how much of that is self-reported and how much of that is based on a scan of the app, but I think it's a great feature that shows Apple caring for the users in terms of offering disclosure.

0:28:15I'm sure that there will be a lot of conversation about this involving developers. I think the developers that are doing the right thing here are going to not have a problem with it, but I do think some developers are going to have some issues.

0:28:28It wouldn't surprise me—surprise, surprise—it wouldn't be a surprise if there was a controversy involving the App Store, where I would assume that whatever is self-reported, you have to agree that this is part of your App Store submission,

0:28:42that you're reporting this truthfully, and that if it's found out not to be true, then you are going to get in big trouble, and that will be bad. So there will probably be some controversy about that.

0:28:51And I do wonder what they're scanning for as well, and saying, "This app seems to do this, this app seems to do that." We'll have to see.

0:28:58But I think from a user perspective, getting more transparency on what tracking procedures and policies a particular company is using is good as a user of software. It'll be interesting to see just from the Apple developer relations perspective how it works.

0:29:15With iPadOS 13, I switched to Safari back on the Mac again, because Safari was so good on iPad that it pushed me everywhere. But one of the things that I have really missed is Chrome's ability to natively translate a webpage.

0:29:30I think it's one of the best features of Chrome. You go to a webpage which is not in your native language, it automatically translates for you. And this is coming to Safari, and I am very, very excited about that, because that's a feature that I've really, really wanted.

0:29:44So that one is a big, big win for me. I cannot wait to use that feature. Again, another reason, genuinely another big reason that I will want to update to Big Sur.

0:29:54And again, just for people that don't know, I typically stay at least one version of macOS behind, because I don't want to mess anything up with my audio equipment, which happens on new versions of macOS very frequently.

0:30:07You know, like, Jason will every single year will have a new problem with his USB interfaces and macOS. But this is going to make this is like a big reason, honestly, why I want to do this.

0:30:18Like, I, for another podcast that I do, the pen addict, I very frequently am looking at pages in Japanese, because of Japanese pen releases. And like, I can't, you know, like on Chrome, it would just translate them all immediately.

0:30:30But in Safari, it's like, oh, now I have to go and open Chrome again. So I'm really excited for Apple adding this feature, because that's one that I'm going to use a lot and will be really, really happy with.

0:30:40There's going to be Control Center on the Mac. It's all intertwined with the menu bar, right? And I think I'm interested in that as well, that you can like drag things out of Control Center into the menu bar.

0:30:48And like, that's fascinating. And, and Notification Center as well that they've revamped that. So instead of having the two panes of Notification Center, they've got a Notification Center and Widgets Share Space.

0:31:01And the widgets can be widget design similar to that on the on iPad and iPhone and Notification Center. Now it kind of groups notifications and stuff.

0:31:10And that's great, because one of the annoying things about the Mac version of Notification Center is that it's this today view and notification view, and it's, you have to toggle between them.

0:31:19And they've cleaned that up in a way that's kind of being stolen directly from the iPad. But I welcome that, because I do use that from time to time, and it's not good over there.

0:31:30So giving that a new take is a good feature. I'm looking forward to that.

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0:33:17Jason, we've kept people waiting for long enough. Let's talk about the chip transition.

0:33:21Now, I think we need to get our name, like our kind of ongoing naming correct here, because we've been calling it the ARM transition.

0:33:28Apple did not call it that. They are calling it their chip transition to their own, to their Apple Silicon.

0:33:35So I guess from now on, we'll just start calling it that, right? Like, because that makes the most sense.

0:33:40I mean, it is accurate to say I use the phrase Apple design processors a lot, right?

0:33:45And that's perfectly explained.

0:33:46Because nobody knows what ARM Holdings is and Apple Silicon is what they're calling it, which is fine.

0:33:51I'm not convinced, by the way, that Apple Silicon is a phrase that is long for this world.

0:33:56It feels to me like they are going to make an announcement of what they're going to call this stuff when they ship the first computers to use it.

0:34:04And maybe they'll call it Apple Silicon forever, but I don't know, it didn't feel like there was branding there.

0:34:10It really felt like that was what they decided to refer to it because they needed to call it something.

0:34:14And, you know, in the end, perhaps there will be a new series of chips that'll be the, you know, some letter followed by some number series.

0:34:24We'll see. Maybe they'll stick with this, but I wouldn't put a lot of money down on Apple Silicon.

0:34:29Like, don't go buy your Apple Silicon t-shirt today.

0:34:31No, this was, honestly, I think they wanted to just not call it ARM because they don't call the iPad chips and the iPhone chips ARM chips.

0:34:39They just don't do that, right? It's not necessary.

0:34:41It's like they never really called the chips in the Macs before x86 chips.

0:34:47They just didn't call them that. It wasn't necessary. They were Intel chips.

0:34:50No, they were Intel and this is Apple Silicon and it's Apple chips.

0:34:53And they, right, they may never brand it. It may just be that they'll come out with the, you know, M20 or whatever and say...

0:35:00The M20, whatever name, right? Like, they'll brand it. I'm almost convinced they will be branded the same way that they brand every other chip they make, right?

0:35:08Like the chips in the, they have U1 chip, you have the W1 chip.

0:35:12We have the, what do they call the Apple Watch ones?

0:35:15They're W, aren't they? They're part of the W series.

0:35:17But, like, they give these names. That's the branding that they use.

0:35:21Because, honestly, I don't think that they really care about branding it too much on those devices.

0:35:26Because it's like, well, this is just part of the iPhone.

0:35:29It's like, you know, they have batteries, they have chips, their chips have code names.

0:35:32And I think going forward, that will be how we think about the Mac.

0:35:36The Macs have their chips, their probably, I reckon, M or whatever they call them.

0:35:40They have a name and that's that.

0:35:43And in a year or a couple of years time, once they've made this transition, which they said is going to be a two-year transition,

0:35:49which was aggressive, we'll talk about that in a little bit, I think,

0:35:53they just won't refer to the chips like as a selling point or as a new thing anymore.

0:35:59It's just part of the overall package. Like, that's just the way that Macs are made.

0:36:03They're made with chips that Apple makes. Like, it's as simple as that.

0:36:06So, they really put a lot of effort into this. They put a lot of weight on this.

0:36:13It was the final thing of WWDC this year, which makes a lot of sense.

0:36:17And they kept talking over and over again about how these chips will take the Mac to a whole new level.

0:36:23They're going to make much better products, really kind of throwing Intel under the bus.

0:36:27But also saying that there are still Intel Macs coming later on this year and that they're going to continue supporting them.

0:36:33But clearly, Apple are putting on the line what we've all been thinking and saying for a while,

0:36:39that this is going to enable them to let the Mac take big steps

0:36:44and they're going to push into new areas, into new features, into new functionality

0:36:49that we've not had on the Mac for a while in the big jumps that they're going to be able to take.

0:36:54And Johnny Ceruggi shared not only the history of Apple Silicon Design, talking about how they got there,

0:37:00but also talking a lot about what they're looking to do and what they're looking to aim for with these new chips.

0:37:06And that's a big part, I think, of the story here and one of the reasons why Apple wants to make it

0:37:12not just about a one-to-one with Intel, because there are other aspects.

0:37:16In fact, Apple has been taking a lot of other aspects of the computer and putting them in their own custom chips in the meantime.

0:37:24The ARM processors that are in a lot of modern Macs are doing security,

0:37:30and they're in the Secure Enclave and they're controlling the camera, and they are the touch bar,

0:37:36and they are the disk controller, and they keep on adding that stuff, and that was part of his message,

0:37:42was it's not just the processor, right? It's the processor and the graphics,

0:37:48and then in their little slide there, it's all these other things that are kind of like custom hardware things

0:37:54that Apple can build as part of this. And that message is, it isn't just about us being fast enough,

0:38:01because essentially what they said was what we've all been thinking, which is essentially when they did the A12X with the iPad Pro,

0:38:09they were there in terms of fast enough. It's about going beyond that, so one of their messages is pushing the Mac further.

0:38:17Definitely the implication there is, we don't have to be like every other PC if we're not chained to Intel.

0:38:24We can innovate on the Mac like we've been able to innovate on the iPad and the iPhone.

0:38:28Once we control this, we can decide what a computer is. We can decide--

0:38:33Hey Jason, what's a computer?

0:38:35Well, whatever Apple says it is, maybe? They have the ability to spread out what they define as the features of a computer,

0:38:47because they're controlling the whole thing, as opposed to having to take this set of definitions from Intel,

0:38:55because they're using Intel stuff. And so that'll be fascinating to see. I understand why they talked about that a bit,

0:39:01because their story is larger than just a one-to-one switch from Intel to Apple.

0:39:06And in fact, viewed through a certain lens, this switch has been going on for a while now,

0:39:11because the T1 and the T2 are Apple Silicon that has been embedded in a whole bunch of Macs for a few years now.

0:39:19And they aren't taking over the central part, but they've been taking over other parts of the computer,

0:39:26and now they're going to take over the central part too.

0:39:28So, really interesting to put it in the history of Apple doing this.

0:39:33I think they want to send the message that Apple's not new to this. This isn't going to be a surprise.

0:39:38They've been tested. These are devices that we've all used that are using the Apple design processors.

0:39:45And then they do the big reveal, which is, "Oh, all the Macs you've seen us demo are all running on Apple design processors,

0:39:54because it's already running," which is always a nice twist.

0:39:58And then they reassure people about the third-party story by saying, "Microsoft and Adobe, they've already got it up and running."

0:40:04Because that's one of the things, when I've seen people try to sow some fear about this transition,

0:40:10"What about big companies like Adobe and Microsoft?"

0:40:13And people are like, "Well, those guys, you have to have Rosetta," which they do, they have Rosetta too,

0:40:19"because those guys aren't going to be there."

0:40:21And so Apple, of course, in this very first presentation says, "Look, here's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, here's Lightroom and Photoshop,

0:40:28and they're all running on this thing too. And this isn't even emulation. They're building on our chips now."

0:40:36So that was a really, it was very effective, very effective to check all the boxes.

0:40:41Because we've been talking about what would be involved in an ARM transition for a long time.

0:40:45And in that presentation, I watched as they just went, "Check, check, check," all the way down.

0:40:50They hit every point, including what people are like, are they going to really do, put the effort in to doing emulation for Intel stuff?

0:40:58And it's like, they did, they carted Rosetta out of the scrap heap, brought the name back, calling it Rosetta 2.

0:41:05They're going to do a code translation when you download the app, which is really interesting.

0:41:10They're not going to even wait because they want to do that work in the background so that when you launch it, it just runs.

0:41:15And it'll be slower than native, but they're going to do that too.

0:41:19So they've checked all these off so they could say it's seamless for users. So that's great news.

0:41:25One of the things that I really thought was super interesting is that they said about how all of the apps,

0:41:31including their Pro apps, and showed off the Pro apps, that they were running natively on that platform.

0:41:37As you say, it wasn't just that they were doing all of the demos on this, which was an A12Z from 2018.

0:41:45The Z is the 2020 iPad Pro, but it's just the A12X from 2018 with the extra GPU core.

0:41:53Ah, yes, good point, good point.

0:41:55But it's still essentially a chip from 2018 that they're using to demo this, and essentially that chip in the Mac Mini that the developer can.

0:42:04Yeah, that's a good way of saying it. It's a current chip, but it is a current chip which is not that unchanged from a couple of years ago.

0:42:11This is not their latest and greatest.

0:42:13No, it's not. It's not what's in the iPhone.

0:42:15And we saw one report that said that this is the chip essentially that they've been using for the last few years for all of their testing.

0:42:21And so, you know, they're saving the real thing for the first computers to ship, first Macs to ship with the Apple Silicon.

0:42:31And that, I think, you mentioned the two-year transition window, which is interesting because there was some conversation about, like, well, maybe they'll keep...

0:42:40There are two ways to go here.

0:42:41There's the argument that maybe they'll keep certain systems around for a very long time running Intel.

0:42:45Like, they'll keep Pro Max will run Intel, Consumer Max will run the Apple chips, and that'll go for a while.

0:42:52And the two-year window says, "Nope, that won't happen."

0:42:54By the end of two years, that Mac Pro, it's going to be running Apple Silicon if it isn't already.

0:42:59Okay, that's one way to view it.

0:43:00The other way is through the lens of the Apple transition, or the Intel transition, where it was, like, six months and everything flipped over, right?

0:43:09It happened super fast, and they're not committing to that.

0:43:12They're committing to a little bit more of a transition period.

0:43:17But the one that got me, that surprised me a little bit is, they said later this year.

0:43:22So this, all the rumors were this was a 2021 hardware transition, and that's not true.

0:43:28It's going to happen this fall, presumably, right?

0:43:32So that's also very interesting, that this is happening sooner maybe than people expected.

0:43:39And, you know, I would argue most people probably thought the transition would take a little bit longer,

0:43:44even though, if you look at the Intel transition, it happened really fast, and they're giving themselves more time than that.

0:43:50I wonder if they will do it quicker, though.

0:43:52But honestly, two years, I mean, I'm assuming, if they're talking about the entire line, they also mean the Mac Pro.

0:43:59Two years is faster than I would have thought they would have had an ARM chip for the, or an Apple-designed chip for the Mac Pro, honestly.

0:44:07Well, how often do they turn over some of their systems, right?

0:44:10Like Mac Mini and Mac Pro, and like, they have to turn over every single system.

0:44:15In a given two-year period, I'm not sure they do, right?

0:44:18I mean, you can probably find a two-year period where they do, but they are committing to updating every single Mac,

0:44:24updating or eliminating, I suppose, every single Mac in a two-year period that begins later this year when they ship the first one.

0:44:32And that's not unreasonable. I think it would be a lot harder for them to do it in six months.

0:44:37So they announced a selection of things for developers.

0:44:40One new version of Xcode, obviously, the version shipping, I guess, today, will feature the tools that you need,

0:44:47and they did that thing that they did, as they always say, you can just recompile and get it up and running in a matter of days,

0:44:54which, again, there's a lot of asterisks to this, which we will see play out over the next few days.

0:45:01In theory, probably. In most instances, probably not.

0:45:07And even in the best-case scenario, how much work is really required, right?

0:45:14Like, we saw this with Catalyst, that even Catalyst apps that spent a lot of time having work done to them still had a lot of rough edges.

0:45:22So, Catalyst is different, obviously, because it's, like, the stuff that is in front of you,

0:45:28rather than the stuff that's way deep down into the system, so there's clear differences there.

0:45:33But it's going to be a case of just waiting and seeing.

0:45:37They did announce the return of two old friends, Universal, got Universal 2,

0:45:43so you'll be able to ship binaries. I guess this will be in the Mac App Store and outside the Mac App Store.

0:45:50Probably this is mostly focused for outside, because the Mac App Store delivers just what you need, doesn't it?

0:45:56So, the Universal binaries, meaning that if you download an application, it will have what you need for Intel and for Apple's design chips,

0:46:04so it will have everything you need to run on whatever system's being installed,

0:46:08and also Rosetta 2, which will be emulation of Intel. They said that it's going to be faster, more powerful, more compatible than the original Rosetta was.

0:46:18It will do the translation on the install of the application, rather than when you open the app, which is a really clever way of doing it.

0:46:25I don't know enough to know why they didn't do that the first time, but that sure seems like the logical way of doing things.

0:46:31And Apple say that this could even handle complex Pro apps, and they demoed Maya, the 3D modeling application.

0:46:37And if that could run, that's pretty great.

0:46:41So, again, with any type of emulation, it's not going to be exactly the same, but you have a margin of error that you can get things to.

0:46:50But when you have companies like Microsoft and Adobe committing publicly, they will have their stuff ready.

0:46:57I mean, when is the question, but they'll have it ready for shipping. That's pretty good.

0:47:03Apple is in a very different position now than when it was with the Intel transition.

0:47:08In its kind of standing as a large corporate player.

0:47:12So Microsoft and Adobe are probably much more willing or feel much more pressured to make these changes quickly than they did with transition to Intel, would be my expectation.

0:47:24I agree. Some of the speculation I saw there about this transition was from people who don't seem to understand Apple and where the Mac is,

0:47:36and Apple's relationship with third-party developers, large ones like Adobe and Microsoft.

0:47:43Because I saw a lot of people who were sort of saying, you know, "Good luck, Apple doing a chip transition," and all that.

0:47:49And it's like, no, this is going to be, I think this is shaping up to be an easier chip transition than Intel.

0:47:55In part, by the way, because I think they've been laying the groundwork for this for a few years,

0:48:00whereas the Intel transition, they were hedging against PowerPC by keeping the Intel project around,

0:48:07but I think it probably happened a lot faster and with a lot less planning.

0:48:12And this feels like something that they've been working on executing for multiple years, right?

0:48:16Like for maybe three or four years, they've been thinking that this is where they're going to go,

0:48:20and they've been getting everything in place to do it.

0:48:23And so I think it is going to be a lot more seamless.

0:48:26Also, let's not forget the PowerPC to Intel transition for developers.

0:48:29So many developers were using CodeWarrior as their development environment,

0:48:33and Apple had to get everybody over basically to Xcode.

0:48:36There was a slide that they did during that WWDC where Steve Jobs said, like, "So here's how it works.

0:48:42If you're already on Xcode, you'll compile for Intel.

0:48:45If you're not on Xcode, you'll move to Xcode and then compile for Intel."

0:48:51And it was like, that was one of the steps.

0:48:52It'll take a little longer because first you must move to Xcode.

0:48:55Well, everybody is using Xcode now for everything,

0:48:58and that gives Apple more control and more of the ability to say, like, now we make the move.

0:49:03It's going to be not -- there will always be issues, but it's going to be way easier because it's planned,

0:49:09because there's a unity of tools being used by most Mac developers.

0:49:14Again, they're going to be gotchas here and there,

0:49:16but I think this is going to actually be smoother for a lot of reasons.

0:49:20iPhone and iPad apps will be able to run natively on the platform.

0:49:27I have so many questions about this.

0:49:30One, I think it is wild that they're doing it because they just look like iPhone apps.

0:49:35So, I mean, I guess the iPad versions might inherent some of the cursor support stuff,

0:49:40which might make that a bit nicer.

0:49:42Right.

0:49:43This is a very peculiar -- because this is a thing that they've done just because they can,

0:49:49but I don't know if I would have done that.

0:49:52My connection died during this part, and I was feverishly asking, you know,

0:49:58like switching to cellular on my iPad and trying to get it up and running again.

0:50:02And so I kind of missed this part because I was like, did I -- what is -- what are they saying exactly?

0:50:07So I don't know.

0:50:09Like, I really don't know how this is going to work and what it's going to look like.

0:50:12But they showed a demo of Monument Valley and a guitar app.

0:50:16I saw that.

0:50:17They were very clearly just iOS apps in Windows.

0:50:20And, I mean, we were expecting iPhone apps coming to Catalyst.

0:50:25I guess that's not happening now and it would just be this instead.

0:50:28But do you get these apps from the app store?

0:50:32Like, where do they come from?

0:50:34I guess you do.

0:50:36Do you see, like, this is just such a weird thing to do.

0:50:40Like, as you say, like, as I said, like, it might be better for --

0:50:43like, fully optimized iPad apps will work nicer, I guess,

0:50:47because it might just look like the cursor.

0:50:49But still very -- just very -- a very peculiar thing to do.

0:50:55I mean, yes, you can do it, and now you can say you have way more apps in the Mac app store than you did before.

0:51:01But I'm just not -- I'm not convinced about this.

0:51:04Yeah, that's true, although it's great for the Mac app store.

0:51:06Look how lively the Mac app store is now.

0:51:08We had millions of apps join the app store when we moved to our own chips.

0:51:12So these are all momentous things, and this is something I just said, and I'm going to say it again.

0:51:19It all is momentous, momentous change for the Mac,

0:51:23and yet not super surprising in the other way,

0:51:28because, like, it's been clear that Apple could do all of this stuff.

0:51:32It was always just a question of would they want to and when would they want to.

0:51:36And I think it has to do with them having this plan

0:51:40and moving all of the pieces forward over the course of several years

0:51:44to get to the point where they can do stuff like this and say,

0:51:46"Sure, we're going to translate Intel apps, and we're going to let you build new apps on our chips,

0:51:51and we're going to let you move your iOS apps into the Mac app store, and they'll just run."

0:51:56And, like, all of these things have been sitting there,

0:52:00but it is interesting to see them pull the trigger on all these things, you know,

0:52:05and say, "All right, here we go. It's all happening now."

0:52:08But that's where we are. It's all happening right now.

0:52:11Also, I should mention they shouted out virtualization technology,

0:52:15and I thought that was really interesting, and they mentioned Linux and Docker.

0:52:18Now, Windows, who knows, but, like, I think when they talk about virtualization,

0:52:25I think that actually gives me some hope that there may down the road be

0:52:31virtualization solutions for Windows on this platform as well.

0:52:36Not mentioned now, and that's fine, but, like, the fact that they are thinking about virtualization at all,

0:52:43it makes me think that there will be.

0:52:47If they're bringing in new virtualization technology,

0:52:50that they're well aware of one of the most virtualized things on their platform, right?

0:52:55And it may be that it's not ready. It may be that there are issues.

0:52:59Are they virtualizing and emulating Intel Windows?

0:53:05Are they trying to virtualize ARM version of Windows, and can they not do that yet?

0:53:11Is there not a version available that will work for them to do that?

0:53:14Maybe it will never happen, but I would say to people who are like, "Oh, forget it."

0:53:18The fact that Apple mentioned virtualization, even though they didn't mention Windows virtualization,

0:53:23I think suggests that they are aware of this issue.

0:53:29That doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to make it available, but at least no, I guess?

0:53:35I don't know. What lack of a point to say.

0:53:37I think it means that there's groundwork being laid here so that it could happen later.

0:53:41But I do like the message it sends to developers, especially, saying,

0:53:45"If you need a virtualized Linux environment or a Docker container or something,

0:53:49we're actually aware that people use our computers for this stuff,

0:53:53and we've built in new virtualization tech.

0:53:55So the implication here is it will be better than the stuff that's in the current version of Mac OS to do this stuff."

0:54:02So that's cool.

0:54:03So going along with this, Apple announced the Universal App Quick Start program.

0:54:08This is a program that developers have to apply for, and it's basically to give them help,

0:54:13to give them assistance, one-on-one assistance when needed.

0:54:17I think being able to talk to app review teams and get expedited support tickets,

0:54:22and the Developer Transition Kit, which is a Mac Mini.

0:54:27So developers have to apply for it, and their applications will be reviewed.

0:54:31I guess this is to stop anyone from just being able to buy one.

0:54:35So your boy over here can't just roll up and give Apple however much money it is.

0:54:40I don't recall how much money they said it would be.

0:54:42It's $500, apparently.

0:54:44And get one of these ARM Mac Minis to show to Twitter how fast Mac OS runs or doesn't on ARM.

0:54:51That's what they're doing. This is the right way of doing it, to try and weed out some of that.

0:54:56Now, of course, there are people that straddle the line.

0:54:59If Steve Troutsmith gets one, provided that there are no--

0:55:03I'm probably sure that there are lots and lots of things that you have to sign where you probably can't do this stuff.

0:55:09But someone like Steve has both a reason for this software, for this hardware, but also shares.

0:55:18It's a great resource for people online.

0:55:21So I expect that to get the kit--James Thompson sent us in the chat room that there was no price mentioned in the application when he applied.

0:55:31But I guess we'll see on that.

0:55:33I'm sure there's a lot of paperwork that needs to be signed to try and weed out the people that genuinely will be able to take use of it and maybe those that wouldn't.

0:55:44But it's cool that they have a program.

0:55:46And unfortunately, it's not the iPad Pro, as we hope to.

0:55:51It's not the iPad Pro.

0:55:53This is fine.

0:55:55This is them actually making an effort to put together this hardware.

0:55:59I hope it is reusable in whatever the Mac Mini update is, that they can use some of this work to do that.

0:56:08But that's just fine.

0:56:10More follow-up from the Relay FM members.

0:56:12Discord is $500. You're right, Jason.

0:56:14Yeah.

0:56:15Do you have anything else that you want to say about the Mac today?

0:56:19So much time spent on the Mac.

0:56:22I like it.

0:56:23I like to see it.

0:56:25I think it's a big change.

0:56:27I think we're going to have summer to adapt.

0:56:30Yeah.

0:56:31So I can't wait to try the new version of macOS for the design stuff because that, you know, chip transitions are dramatic and exciting.

0:56:46But in the end, you know, I don't think of that Mac I used that ran a PowerPC chip and that Mac I used that ran an Intel chip and think, "Oh, boy, all the colors were different when I ran on PowerPC," because, you know, in the end, it was a Mac.

0:57:00So in terms of direct impact on, like, how we do our jobs and use our computers every day, some of the visual changes may be much more important.

0:57:11So I'm looking forward to trying those out and seeing kind of what the heck they're doing to remake the Mac and how it feels.

0:57:16And it feels like I'm using a big iPad or not.

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0:59:03Let's talk about iOS 14 now, Jason.

0:59:06Okay.

0:59:07The first kind of thing that Craig spoke about was a selection of things that are encapsulated into the experience of iOS 14, especially on the iPhone.

0:59:18So there were three headings for this.

0:59:21There was the home screen, there was widgets, and there was picture-in-picture video on the iPhone.

0:59:25The picture-in-picture video is the easiest one to knock out.

0:59:28Great to have that, but we know what that is, right?

0:59:31It's been on the iPad for a while now.

0:59:33That's right.

0:59:34The home screen really, basically, finally, we have a way of having more organization and cleanup options for app icons.

0:59:43So we have the app library.

0:59:47So at the end of your home screen pages, you do an extra swipe and there is some folders that are automatically organized into categories and they surface the apps to the top level that you use the most.

0:59:58There's a search field which you tap on, but when you tap on the search field, it also organizes all of your apps into an alphabetical list.

1:00:06And you also have the ability to just remove pages, right?

1:00:11Which I know how I'm going to run my phone now.

1:00:13I'm going to have my home screen and then I'm going to have the app library.

1:00:16I don't want any more pages on my iPhone.

1:00:18I'm done.

1:00:19That's it.

1:00:20What did you think about these new features?

1:00:22I mean, I think we've been waiting for the idea of just having a list of just show me what my apps are.

1:00:28I think using their Siri tech to do the search suggestions, which you've been able to get in the search screen before, they've essentially taken the search screen and pushed it out onto this last screen with a bunch of different app collections on top of it.

1:00:40And then you've got the ability to basically delete all the extra pages from your screen.

1:00:46You can have as many pages as you want, but I think they made the point very well that after the first couple, your muscle memory kind of falls away and then you're just hunting through folders and all of that.

1:00:55So this is a welcome feature to be able to organize, use that spatial memory to get your home screen page one, maybe page two, the way you like it.

1:01:07And then everything else just goes in these collections.

1:01:10I think it's great.

1:01:11And then you will need, you know, who knows how many pages you will need for your muscle memory because you won't just have apps on those pages either.

1:01:20You'll have widgets for the first time.

1:01:22Yeah. So like I may have not only less apps on my home screen than I did before.

1:01:27I will also expect I will have a page or two of widgets because widgets now are very basically Apple have finally done what everyone wanted them to do, which is to implement a version of widgets that's very similar to Android.

1:01:40You can have application widgets on the home screen.

1:01:43You can have multiple size options for them that developers can submit with different UI depending on the size.

1:01:50You know, like for example, you may have a calendar widget, maybe the smallest widget shows a date and your next event, a larger widget will show multiple events, your next upcoming five, for example.

1:02:01And you can choose which widget you want to have.

1:02:04You can move them around on the home screen and they'll have automatically updating information.

1:02:09This is the area that I foresee the most problems with that preview this year.

1:02:14We saw it before with widgets, but like just how much information can be added to those widgets and how quickly it can update.

1:02:21That's going to be really interesting to see what that ends up looking like.

1:02:25They also had a smart stacks feature so you could just put this one widget on your phone and it will show you the widget that the iPhone thinks you want to see at that time, which is cool.

1:02:36Yeah, it's almost the Siri watch face for the iPhone, right?

1:02:39Which is like, it's the Siri suggestions thing for the widget, which is this is the widget you want right now.

1:02:46And if it works, that's fantastic, right?

1:02:48The question is how well does it work?

1:02:50Although it looks like you can basically just sort of scroll through your widgets in that space if you want to.

1:02:54Yeah.

1:02:55And I'm really excited about like the idea of having just one screen, which has my task manager and my calendar on it, on the widget, like its own home screen.

1:03:04Because that's the kind of stuff that I've wanted for a very long time and I'm really keen to see, I want to dig into it, like how does this work on the iPad as well?

1:03:14And seeing like how interactive can you make a home screen now?

1:03:18Can it be almost like Panex status board app, right?

1:03:22Where you just have this one screen and it's got all of the information that you want, right?

1:03:27Like maybe this ends up being a great way to repurpose an old iPad.

1:03:31You just create this widget thing, right?

1:03:33But that would be really cool and I would love, I really am excited about this.

1:03:37This is one of the things I'm most excited about.

1:03:39I'm happy that it's on both devices, both iOS and iPadOS.

1:03:43That one I'm really excited about.

1:03:45I was very surprised to see that Siri got the time that it got, that there is some visual changes to Siri as well as some behind the scenes stuff.

1:03:56Personally, I didn't see as much behind the scenes stuff as I would have wanted to see.

1:04:00Maybe there's more to it than that, of like reliability and stuff like that.

1:04:04I'm very happy to see that Apple's moving to on-device dictation.

1:04:08So that's going to speed up Siri a lot, like a lot.

1:04:11There was a video floating around recently that you may have seen of an iPhone versus a Pixel with dictation.

1:04:18And the reason the Pixel was so much faster was because the Pixel 4 added Google Assistant dictation like natively to the device.

1:04:26This isn't something that's the same on all Android phones, but they shrunk it down and they put it onto the device so that it was on-device dictation.

1:04:33And when you have on-device dictation, it can speed things up so much because you don't have to go out to the web to turn the light on or off anymore, right?

1:04:42Things will get quicker because of this and I'm really excited about that feature.

1:04:48Yeah, we'll have to see what else is going on.

1:04:51You know, it's a keynote. It's very vague. We may get more signs this week about it and then in the months to come.

1:04:58But I like them talking about how they're making an effort to improve Siri and improving Siri on-device and throwing in translation.

1:05:06One of, you know, a thing that I keep coming up with is I want to see translation applied to messages.

1:05:12And that's not something they mentioned, but I feel like now it is very little work needs to be done to get that ball across the goal of

1:05:20we have a translate app, we have on-device translation, and we've got messages to be able to, you know, translate something in line.

1:05:29If you receive a message from somebody in a different language to be able to sort of like kick that off to the translate app and get the answer.

1:05:36And I also appreciate it in their translate demo, the idea that they're going to be able to recognize the language that's being spoken.

1:05:42And so you can have sort of two windows translating either direction and you tap the button and say something in one language and it displays it in the other.

1:05:50And it'll work for both directions because it knows which language is being spoken for the 11 languages that they're supporting, we should say.

1:05:56It was Google Translate. This is Google Translate.

1:06:00That's exactly what it is. And they needed to be there with it. So here they are.

1:06:04But the thing is, though, like this is something that Google does to them all the time.

1:06:09Like Google so far ahead, like has so many more languages, right?

1:06:13Like the reason I know all of this is two nights ago, me and Adina were playing around with the translation feature in Google Translate, which is just this.

1:06:22And she was talking in Romanian and I was talking in English. Like we were just kind of fooling around with it.

1:06:26And it's this exact feature. You press the microphone button once, it listens to me, it listens to her, translates things backwards and forwards.

1:06:33I'm really happy that Apple's doing it, but they have a long way to go because they had something like nine or ten languages.

1:06:39That's not enough languages. Right. It just isn't.

1:06:42And I hope that this is something that they move quickly and that they keep iterating on and keep adding more because that's what makes this thing useful.

1:06:51If you go to use this application and it doesn't have the language you want, you may never come back to it.

1:06:57Right. You may just go and use Google Translate instead.

1:07:00Like I applaud them for doing it. I'm happy that they're going to do it.

1:07:03But you've got to move quickly on stuff like this because otherwise it doesn't get adopted and that moves against what Apple's kind of plan is with this type of stuff.

1:07:12I liked all the compact design. They've redesigned it so that Siri doesn't take over the whole home screen anymore.

1:07:18It's even more so on iPad OS where it kind of lives in the bottom right hand corner and gives you pieces of information, which I which I really liked.

1:07:28So that was messages. Sorry, that was Siri. I want to talk about messages. I'm jumping ahead already.

1:07:34There's a bunch of stuff in here that I loved. The ability to pin a message to the top of the list. Fantastic.

1:07:40Like I me and Adina do not text every day because we're at home every day.

1:07:44But when I want to send her a message, I always expect her to be able to scroll down and search for it. Right. Yeah, exactly.

1:07:50But she isn't always at the top. But that's my mind always would say, well, she should be at the top.

1:07:55She's the most important person to message. So like I want that to be the case. And I have a couple of group threads like similarly, right.

1:08:01Some with some friends, one with my brothers. I want those message threads at the top.

1:08:05I don't want a two factor authentication or a message from some my doctor or whatever to be above all that stuff.

1:08:12I want the message threads that I'm in the most to be right there when I want them.

1:08:16They are there. And then all of the group stuff is amazing. So inline replies that are collapsible. Fantastic.

1:08:25Really into that. Slack threads for messages. Yeah, but with a better UI than Slack.

1:08:31I mean, look, Slack has threading, but Slack's threading UI is terrible. But this looked much nicer.

1:08:38Mentions of notification options. So if you're in a group thread, I have a lot of noisy group threads on Do Not Disturb.

1:08:45But I still want to know if people mention me. And now you can have that. Right.

1:08:48So you can type somebody's name in. They'll mention you. This is exactly the type of stuff that I wanted.

1:08:53And also you can have more kind of imagery around so you can like give an image to a group.

1:09:00But it still shows all of the like individual profile images of everybody around it so you can make things feel a bit more fun.

1:09:07And also along with all of this, more Memoji options, which included in the message section, which has hair and options, more accessory options, more age options.

1:09:17And they also included face coverings, which seemed like an obvious but a good one to have. By the way, everybody, wear a face mask.

1:09:25Just wear face masks. That's a great thing to do. Please do that. Wear a mask. Show your compassion for other people.

1:09:32Yes, it's a really easy thing to do. But these message things are rolling out on all of the platforms, which is fantastic.

1:09:40And I'm super, super happy about that. Just Apple continuing to make messages a much, much better overall conversation platform is a great thing.

1:09:51What else caught your eye from the iOS portion of the keynote?

1:09:56Well, we should talk about at least we should mention CarPlay updates so they're not, you know, standing still on CarPlay.

1:10:03They're adding some new app categories to CarPlay, which makes sense. Parking apps. So, you know, you need to get parking nearby.

1:10:10There are apps like ParkWiz that will let you do that. EV charging, which is really nice. They're a bunch.

1:10:15Having an electric vehicle myself, having an EV app that tells you where the nearby charging stations are and all that. That's very nice.

1:10:22Those are now allowed on CarPlay with this new version and quick food ordering as well.

1:10:28So you can do that from your car and then pick it up if you're on the road and you need to stop somewhere and pick up some Starbucks or whatever else.

1:10:34Like being able to do that directly from the CarPlay interface is convenient. So it's nice to see that.

1:10:40And then the car key stuff to throw that in there to the U1 chip got mentioned.

1:10:46Finally, the U1 chip has a mention on stage.

1:10:50But even then it was for later. It's not for now.

1:10:54It is for later, but it is something that I wrote up when I wrote about Ultra Wideband technology that one of the things that it can really be used for is for digital car keys, basically.

1:11:04Because it prevents sort of spoofing and hijacking, you know, your key signal from the restaurant where you are and then repeating it to your car, making it think that your car is closer than it is.

1:11:15And that the U1 chip, the way it works, all using time tracking via the speed of light. And so therefore you can't spoof it like that.

1:11:22So there's this, you know, there's this NFC version of this that is coming out with the BMW car that's coming out this fall is the first one to support it.

1:11:32But there also they mentioned working with this consortium to work on this broader standard and that the U1 chip will work with it and all of that.

1:11:39So the point here is basically like if you buy a car, maybe not this fall unless it's this BMW, but like in the next few years, you will probably end up buying a car at some point that you can unlock with your phone.

1:11:52And it's got it. You got to start somewhere. This is the thing that it will actually have a huge impact on people's lives, but it's not going to be for like five years for a lot of people, if not longer.

1:12:02But it will eventually our car, our phone will be our car key and that'll be how it works. But so there, Apple is starting that today.

1:12:09Well, I thought I was going to be bored by the car key thing. Like it had been rumored, but I was watching it with Idina and we were both like, oh, when they were saying about you can share the key of other people and you can get temporary access.

1:12:23You can make sure they don't drive too fast. Like that stuff was very, very cool and is so much more than just my phone unlocks my car. Right? Like that's to me, that functionality is kind of boring.

1:12:35Like it's like, okay, whatever. Right? This is smart lock stuff. Like I have in my smart lock today where you can share the smart lock code and have different ones that work at different times and have different privileges.

1:12:46And so applying that to the car, I think it's good, but it's going to take time. But at least we're kind of on the case now. I want to mention App Clips, which is funny. It's something similar to something Google, I think did last year.

1:13:01And the idea here is that you can get access to a subset of an app functionality by tapping on an NFC sticker, by scanning a barcode, by someone sending you a message, by tapping on an item in Apple Maps.

1:13:16And this is a perfect use case for if you've ever been somewhere that has parking meters that have an app and you can download an app and log in and set up your credit card.

1:13:27So you can just buy 30 minutes at the parking meter. This happens to me every time I visit a city. I've got a parking meter app that I downloaded for Salt Lake City, a different one for Boulder, Colorado, a different one for Eugene, Oregon.

1:13:40Like everybody's got their own parking app. So with App Clips, the idea here is you get to the parking meter and you'll either tap an NFC thing or you'll scan a barcode and it'll bring up a little thing for an app clip of that parking meter app and you open it.

1:13:54Ideally, if it supports Sign In With Apple and Apple Pay, you'll be able to go boop, boop, and you have done it and you've paid for your parking.

1:14:03And that's the dream of it. Or like if you're renting one of those scooters that almost killed us all in San Jose the last couple of years, same thing.

1:14:11You can tap or scan, press a couple of buttons and you're going. You don't have to go to the app store and find the app and download it and log in and set up an account and all of that

1:14:21to reduce the amount of friction for, you know, it's great that these things are app enabled, that you've got the ability to use your phone for this, but there can be a lot of barriers in the way.

1:14:33So it's a nice idea similar to what Google has had for a while where you're getting a little subset of the app.

1:14:39You have the option then later if you want to download the whole app, you can do that. But the idea is, look, I don't want to download your whole app here.

1:14:47I just want to park, right? I just want to park my car and pay so that I can go wherever I need to go.

1:14:54So I think it's nice to see Apple getting on board with this since, you know, this is the platform that we use.

1:15:00And I'm sure many of us have been in this situation where you're out and about and suddenly you have to go through a whole app installation and log in and maybe even enter a credit card kind of experience in order to get what you need.

1:15:12And that could be a lot easier.

1:15:15These can be found in Safari, Messages, Maps, NFC, and via an App Clip code, which is an Apple designed QR code.

1:15:22Now, here's the thing. I've seen reference to these QR codes already as part of a leak about some AR stuff.

1:15:31So like, imagine you've got these QR codes on all over the place, right?

1:15:37Because Apple's made this new QR code that they want and they're trying to encourage businesses to adopt so people can very easily get into their app experience.

1:15:44If you have glasses on that can read those, that's going to be a different thing, right?

1:15:49Like this is like another part of where they might want to start looking and going into the future.

1:15:56Apple's vision of the future.

1:15:58Right, but it's all part of it, isn't it? Like all part of it.

1:16:01And so the App Clip code stuff, that could be really interesting, could be a big thing for AR in the future.

1:16:08And I'm sure that they will integrate into AR products, you know, maybe just in iOS, but they didn't really talk about that today.

1:16:16These use Apple Pay, they use Sign In with Apple, it's all part of the integrated stack.

1:16:21I think that this is a very cool idea. When Android had this, it was called Instant Apps.

1:16:27When they showed this off years ago, I thought it looked really cool then, but I believe it didn't really take off.

1:16:33You know, I don't really feel like I've heard a lot about it since. I expect that Apple will be able to get this to take off because they can brute force it.

1:16:43Right, like just what they do with this type of stuff.

1:16:46And I mean the argument there also is that with Sign In with Apple and Apple Pay, you can end up with a very smooth experience for a customer.

1:16:55Where they, you know, do almost nothing and they've given you money.

1:16:59And if you're running those parking meters or whatever else, those scooters, you just want them to give you money.

1:17:06That's in the end, make it as easy as possible for us to park or ride a scooter or whatever.

1:17:12This is going to be another way that they force Sign In with Apple in more places.

1:17:16Yep. Yep. Absolutely.

1:17:18Because the services that use this probably don't use social network signings, which is what Sign In with Apple was for before.

1:17:25But now they'll be like, well if you want to use this cool functionality so people can check out really quickly.

1:17:29And it's in, you know, you get the data that you would get if they were using your application. There you go.

1:17:34They have set some rules on it. The apps in App Clips have to be less than 10 megabytes of data so they can be opened and run fast.

1:17:43Because you assume it's pulling something from the web, right, to show this UI.

1:17:49You know, like in the same way, like if you are on a very slow internet connection, it's going to be a problem.

1:17:53And this is like another one of those things where I think about like if you are traveling overseas and you have a limited data cap,

1:18:00like that's the kind of stuff that you'll burn through quickly without even knowing about it.

1:18:03These aren't necessarily downsides to this platform, but it's just a thing.

1:18:07I think this is really cool because it would mean that I would have less apps on my iPhone.

1:18:12Like I have so many apps that I don't actually need, except that one time that I do need them, so I have to keep them around.

1:18:19Now I won't need to do that. I mean, arguably this means less to me now that I don't have to manually put everything inside of a folder,

1:18:26but nevertheless, I think this is a cool feature.

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1:20:05Let's talk about iPadOS 14, shall we?

1:20:09Let us. That was the part that I was the most excited about because I feel like there's the most that can be done.

1:20:16There's the most space for innovation and adding features in iPad of all of Apple's platforms because it's so capable

1:20:24and yet is kind of limited by the software. The software has got a lot of room to grow.

1:20:28I'm not trying to insult the iPad. I'm trying to say there's a lot of room for some growth.

1:20:34And so I was excited to see what they had to offer us.

1:20:38This is probably the part of the presentation that I was the most underwhelmed with.

1:20:42I was expecting there to be more here. I'm very excited about the things they showed.

1:20:48I've had a cursory look through the list of stuff that they've added. There seems to be a lot there.

1:20:53I'm excited to dig into it more. But I was hoping for some bigger high-level stuff than what we got.

1:21:02I knew things were going south a little bit when they pointed out all the features that they rolled in late in iOS or iPadOS 13.

1:21:14I had the moment of like, "Uh-oh. They are taking credit for things that we already have."

1:21:20If you want it to be a long list, that's never a great sign.

1:21:24It's like, "No, no, no. We already did all these things, right? Right? Right?

1:21:27So what we announced now isn't going to be underwhelming because we did all of those things."

1:21:31And yeah, it picks up the iOS stuff, so that will have an impact in terms of widgets and app stuff.

1:21:39And maybe if they would have shown iPadOS first and did all of those features first, I would have been more excited, right?

1:21:46Because I would have been like, "Oh, look at all these great features," because they are awesome things that I'm excited about.

1:21:51I'm more excited about iOS than I thought I was going to be.

1:21:54But just specific iPad stuff, I don't know. They spoke about this "design for iPad" thing where they were talking about design language tweaks that are better for the larger screen,

1:22:04and they showed sidebars and drop-down menus and that kind of stuff.

1:22:08There's a lot of Mac features in here. So I said that it was the iPadification of the Mac.

1:22:14Now let's do the flip side. This is the Macification of the iPad because a lot of sidebars are like, "Look, Photos has a sidebar."

1:22:21Already did on the Mac. Now it has one on the iPad too.

1:22:24"Look, here's a drop-down, a pull-down menu." Where have I seen that before?

1:22:28Or the search bar that's like, "Well, we rethought search on the iPad."

1:22:33"Oh, to make it exactly like Spotlight on the Mac, you mean?"

1:22:36It's great. I think it's probably the right decision.

1:22:38But it is funny that it's sort of like, "Oh, yeah. Okay. So you're bringing the Mac. I see what's happening here.

1:22:44You're bringing the Mac this way. You're bringing the iPad this way."

1:22:46They're kind of meeting in the middle a little bit.

1:22:49Yeah. It's not bad, but it's also not exactly groundbreaking. It's more just little design tweaks.

1:22:56I wanted handwriting recognition since they introduced the Apple Pencil.

1:23:01Sort of like, if I'm holding my pencil and I want to do it because I'm doing something else and then I need to input some text,

1:23:07I don't want to put my pencil down and then type. If I could just write.

1:23:10And I'm bad with handwriting, but still, if I could just write every so often, that would be super helpful.

1:23:15So, Scribble. We have Scribble now. That's a nice feature.

1:23:19But once you get past that and the iOS features that have already been added,

1:23:26I don't know. I felt a year ago when they named this iPadOS that they were really kind of putting themselves on the line,

1:23:31that they had to have features that were specifically for iPad.

1:23:34And I will admit that given that they shipped the pointer support already, that they took their best feature.

1:23:41Yeah, they did.

1:23:42And moved it here.

1:23:44We would have lost our minds if they would have shown that feature of today.

1:23:48So I'll give them credit for that. I'll give them credit for that.

1:23:51But my question for you is, do you think this announcement lived up to the fact that they have to make substantive iPad announcements every year

1:23:59now that they've named it iPadOS? Or did it fall flat?

1:24:02There are some things in here that are really big.

1:24:04I bet that the design for iPad stuff and some of the things that they're adding are going to make the daily usage of using an iPad much better.

1:24:12Like people showing us stuff in the Discord right now.

1:24:15Like, for example, choosing from a date picker will now show you a calendar rather than that spinny wheel.

1:24:20Stuff like that is going to make a very big difference to my usage.

1:24:24And there is also emoji search and an emoji popover on iPadOS.

1:24:29These are big things. Like, they seem like small things, but they're going to make big differences.

1:24:34And I personally want to hold out until I've done two things.

1:24:38One, really dig through the stuff that Federico will be finding out and publishing on MacStories.

1:24:43And also installing this beta at some point and running through it myself to see, like, of Apple's apps, how do they feel now?

1:24:51Because if these applications, because of some of these design changes, feel more grown up and more advanced just because of the fact that they've been refined,

1:24:59that's going to make a big difference.

1:25:01Like, I'm also really excited about the search stuff, it popping over and me being able to just go straight to websites from anywhere.

1:25:08Like, those things look really good if they do work as good as Mac Spotlight as opposed to the current Spotlight on iPadOS.

1:25:18So they're big things. I'm also excited about the pencil improvements.

1:25:22So that handwriting in any field is great, but also being able to select and copy and paste and move around handwritten text is awesome.

1:25:30I'm very happy about that stuff.

1:25:32But I was hoping for, I think, some big picture stuff here that we didn't get that I will assume is coming next time.

1:25:43What I will say is if this is the small revision year in between the two big ones, this is so much better than any small revision year Apple have ever done for the iPad.

1:25:55The iPad usually gets a big year, small year, big year type like the TikTok, and they have added more here than they would in another small year.

1:26:05And I think that there are potentially some things here that in usage are going to make a big difference, but this wasn't the home run that I was hoping that iPadOS would be.

1:26:15I do really feel like I need to actually spend time with this now to really feel how important it's going to be for me.

1:26:23Yeah, I feel like you said it right there, which is by the admittedly very low bar of iPad updates on the off years, this is better than that.

1:26:35And give them a little bonus points on top of that for the pointer support that they shipped early.

1:26:40So I agree with you. I think that's about where we are.

1:26:44It's disappointing that it's not more, but we did get a lot earlier this spring and it's still better than a kind of no new features except what are on the iPhone that you get for free for the iPad.

1:26:55But at the same time, I'm always going to want more.

1:26:59And so I guess in that way, it's not entirely fair for me to judge this as that it left me wanting more because I was always going to want more, but I'm not overwhelmed by the number of changes on the iPad.

1:27:10We'll just put it that way.

1:27:11Yeah, and there's definitely more I want to see here.

1:27:14They showed off in this section, like the phone call UI not taking over the whole screen anymore.

1:27:19That's also coming to the iPhone. We didn't mention that, but that's a big one.

1:27:23I'm really excited about that because that's so silly, right?

1:27:27That the phone is considered that important, that it's not a notification and Siri showing as notifications and that kind of stuff is also really cool.

1:27:37Yeah, this wasn't a home run, as we say, but there's definitely some stuff in here that's going to take a bit more digging into.

1:27:46Should we talk about watchOS before we finish today?

1:27:49Why not? Yeah.

1:27:51So they focused a lot on complications.

1:27:53I'll be honest, I'm not sure if I got what was new here other than rich complications could be in more places.

1:28:00The big thing that's new, and I think this is great news for somebody like _DavidSmith because he's got his whole app that's just complications,

1:28:08is it used to be that an app could put a complication on a watch face.

1:28:14Oh, okay. This is awesome, and I'm very excited about this now.

1:28:18Every complication on a given watch face can be a different complication from the same app.

1:28:25Which, as somebody pointed out in Slack that I'm in, is as close as we've ever come to a custom watch face

1:28:33because if you view all the slots other than the time as a fair game for one app to take over, you're pretty close.

1:28:43You're not quite there, but you're close to being there.

1:28:45So think of that. Think of _DavidSmith's app that can have like _WatchSmith.

1:28:50Right, _WatchSmith, which has a billion different complications.

1:28:54Now you'll be able to build a whole watch face just full of his complications if you want to.

1:28:59So that's a big step forward.

1:29:01And that's exactly what's a feature I wanted.

1:29:03I got a little bit lost in the watch face and the complications part, honestly, but that is actually really cool.

1:29:10And then I guess now I understand one of the features that they said.

1:29:14So with the watch face sharing, so you'll be able to share watch faces with each other,

1:29:19they also said that a developer can offer a watch face setup inside of their app.

1:29:25Right, so imagine David's app, _WatchSmith's, having that moment where _WatchSmith says,

1:29:30"Here's our design for this kind of thing."

1:29:34And it's all lunar and weather and things like that.

1:29:39And then you tap and it opens and now it's a watch face that you can make.

1:29:43That you don't have to remake it yourself, it's just there on your watch.

1:29:47That's great, that's great.

1:29:49So it's not quite third-party custom watch faces, but it will open up the possibilities of apps designing a whole bunch of different watch faces and that's good.

1:29:58Sleep tracking is obviously the big one.

1:30:01And it's doing a few different things and it's tying in with the iPhone.

1:30:06So there's like a whole wind-down mode that the iPhone and the watch will go into.

1:30:12It turns on do not disturb, it will show you some shortcuts on the home screen for your phone,

1:30:17like the lock screen that you can set up to help you get into sleepy mode.

1:30:21Your watch goes into sleep mode automatically at the times that you kind of say you want to go to bed.

1:30:27This is really about also trying to help you get into a sleeping pattern as well as just tracking your sleep.

1:30:33They actually didn't go into too much detail about what the watch is doing, when you're sleep tracking, what that data looks like.

1:30:40There wasn't a lot there other than it tracks your sleep.

1:30:43And then you can set multiple different alarms types, so you can have sounds, you can have just tactic alarms.

1:30:50And then when you wake up, you get a new screen on the watch which also shows your battery, which is important because you might want to charge the watch then.

1:30:58So there is more digging to do into this feature, but it's at least here now.

1:31:03Yeah, I want more detail and my frustration often with this is that Apple has their whole go to sleep kind of thing,

1:31:14where they're trying to close off your devices and have you go to sleep and all that.

1:31:18And like, "Ah, that doesn't work for me. That doesn't really work for me."

1:31:21So we'll see how aggressive they are about you wanting to do it your way versus Apple wanting you to do it Apple's way.

1:31:29But I like that they're actually doing all of the machine learning stuff to model being able to detect things about your sleep cycle by wearing the watch.

1:31:39And then you wake up in the morning and you charge your watch and take a shower or whatever.

1:31:44So good, long time coming. Glad it's here. Glad it isn't tied to a watch hardware update.

1:31:51That's also a good thing. So yeah, it's all good.

1:31:54They're adding automatic detection of hand washing and it will do a 20 second countdown.

1:32:00And if you didn't wash your hands for long enough, they're going to tell you.

1:32:04And I thought that was really clever, really cute. Clearly something they added in quickly.

1:32:09Honestly, I would like to see them push it out before watchOS 7 because September is a little while away, but maybe it needs work.

1:32:17But you know, this is a cool thing. They did some nice, cute design for it.

1:32:21I think this is a clever, smart and of the moment feature to add into watchOS.

1:32:27Also hidden on the slide, Jason, I don't know if you saw it, Shortcuts on the watch.

1:32:32So whether this is an app or whatever, I actually don't know right now, but I just saw it on a slide.

1:32:37This is something that's wild that has been missing for a while since there was a workflow app for the watch and there was no shortcut support on the watch in the sense of being able to run things.

1:32:47So I'm keen to see what that ends up looking like.

1:32:49And there were also a bunch of new workout stuff. There's a new dance workout, core strength, functional strength and a cool down activity type along with a new activity app design to go alongside it.

1:33:03Did we run through the major platforms? I think we did it, Jason.

1:33:06I think we did. There's a lot.

1:33:08There is a lot.

1:33:09And here's the truth is we've talked for more than 90 minutes and we are talking about what's in the keynote and our reactions to that.

1:33:19And then there are the web pages behind that and there are all the other sessions that are going to happen all week.

1:33:24So we are scratching the surface here and that's the beauty of it is now the summer stretches out before us and we'll get more information over the course of this whole week.

1:33:35And that's the beauty of the I really love our post keynote one week out episode because that's after we've had some time to sort of like think about it.

1:33:45And also a lot of the details have come to light that aren't necessarily there.

1:33:49They're sort of coming to light right now as we're talking.

1:33:52So there will be more about all of this down the road.

1:33:56But like this is a big day for the Mac.

1:33:58That's the that's the big story out of all of this is that it's not only it's a bigger day than we thought for the Mac.

1:34:04It's a bigger moment for the Mac because it's not just about a chip transition but it's also about some pretty serious UI changes.

1:34:12And it's a it's a new era for the Mac in more ways than one.

1:34:17I'm going to say like I didn't get everything I wanted today.

1:34:20You know like I didn't get as much as I wanted for the iPad.

1:34:22But I'm going to say I am really excited about Mac OS Big Sur.

1:34:29And if I don't get everything I want going into this but end up coming out being much more excited about a platform that I wasn't necessarily that excited about.

1:34:39Just WWDC is a win for me like big time.

1:34:42I'm very excited to dig into stuff that's happening this week.

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1:35:02We're going to talk about what we're planning for the rest of the week.

1:35:05We're going to talk about how it differed to watch this keynote at home.

1:35:09But I'm I'm you know I'm finding myself really excited to dig in especially to some of this Mac stuff.

1:35:16Whilst I'm not going to run the beta I'm not planning on running any betas.

1:35:19I'm definitely not going to run it on my iMac Pro if I run it anywhere maybe on an old laptop or something.

1:35:24I'm just genuinely really excited to see all of that work go in to the Mac which honestly at least from a Mac OS perspective.

1:35:32I kind of thought was locked in for a long long time to come.

1:35:35I wasn't expecting all of that.

1:35:37I don't think anybody was.

1:35:39If anybody had Mac OS redesign on their bingo card fair play to you but I'm not of course that one at all.

1:35:48But yeah this is this is obviously a different WWDC for so many reasons.

1:35:53But one thing that I'm super pleased about and like I take my hat off to Apple is they did they definitely continue to deliver.

1:36:01Right. Like they didn't take their foot off the gas this year and be like OK things are difficult.

1:36:06We're going to strip back a lot of stuff to the point where this is like we're doing all performance and improvements.

1:36:11You know that's it.

1:36:12Performance enhancements and improvements.

1:36:14They've got some big stuff here.

1:36:16We're going to continue digging into it next week.

1:36:18It is not yet time for the summer of fun.

1:36:20We're still all business next week.

1:36:22We're going to take a look at more of the stuff that we've learned in the intervening time.

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